Eighteen trotters, from three countries, will participate in this year’s race, in which the French champion trotter Ready Cash will try to win the race for a third time in a row. This has not happened since the great Ourasi, who died recently, did it in 1987.

No North America trotter is among the entries, but Main Wise AS is a son of Yankee Glide and out of Desert Flower K (Sierra Kosmos) was foaled in Italy, is Dutch owned and is trained in France.

Here is the starting list for the 2013 Prix d’Amerique:

Number – Horse (Country, if other than France) – Driver
1 - Un Mec d’Heripre – Mathieu Abrivard
2 - Roxanne de Barbray – Dominik Locqeneux
3 - Tiego Etang – Christian Bigeon
4 - Raja Mirchi (SWE) – Lutfi Kolgjini
5 - Vanika du Ruel – Franck Anne
6 - Reve de Beylev – David Thomain
7 - Punchy – J Boillereau
8 - Royal Dream – Jean Philippe Dubois
9 - Quoumba de Guez – Jean Michel Bazire
10 - Noras Bean (SWE) - Stefan Söderkvist
11 - The Best Madrik – Christophe Martens
12 - Quarcio du Chene (SWE) – Bjørn Goop
13 - Save the Quick – Pierre Vercruysse
14 - Timoko – Richard Westerink
15 - Main Wise As (ITA) – Pierre Levesque
16 - Roxanne Griff – Eric Raffin
17 - Maharajah (SWE) - Ôrjan Kihlström
18 - Ready Cash – Franck Nivard